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Let the Good Vibes Roll: Supporting Women Artists
Let the Good Vibes Roll: Supporting Women Artists
Our Newsletter
Our Newsletter
We have had a most active first half of the year over here at AWDF, from launching an ambassador for our new thematic area, to celebrating International Women’s Day in memorable style, to fundraisers, to organisational events for grantees.
Finally, here is a modest compilation of these months for your reading pleasure: Our Newsletter – January to June 2012
We look forward to your feedback.
Catalytic Philanthropy and Funding for Women’s Organisations in Africa
Catalytic Philanthropy and Funding for Women’s Organisations in Africa
In May this year, I found myself in an inspiring and thought-provoking event in Los Angeles, USA. It was the annual summit for Women’s Funding Network, and the theme was “Women Economics and Peace”. It was a most refreshing experience for me. This was mostly on account of the worth and quality of the presentations done during the event, and I share a particularly stimulating one with you today.
It was a presentation by Jeff Kudash on “Catalytic philanthropy to collective impact- How funders effect large scale systemic change’’, which led me subsequently to read the article “Catalytic Philanthropy”, written by Mark R Kramer. This article discusses why the traditional approach to philanthropy cannot possibly be effective in the long term and highlights the need to paradigm-shift to catalytic philanthropy. Reading Kramer’s article brought to mind some challenges I had observed over the years, working in Fundraising and Financial Management at AWDF, and led to this desire to share my understanding of Kudash’s presentation, Kramer’s article, and their mutual relationship to the challenges hounding women’s organisations in Africa.
Traditional vrs Catalytic Philantrophy
In traditional philanthropy, what happens is that women’s organisations apply for funding from donors; the donors decide which women’s organisations to support, and how much money to give. What this means is that, the organisations are responsible for devising the solutions to their idetified social problems. However, considering the size and the budgets of most of these organisations working on women’s issues, they persistently face a lot of project and financial limitations, even though they are able to help thousands of people in need.
This is because generally, women’s organisations on the African continent tend to have a low institutional capacity. Some attribute this low capacity to the fact that the organisations do not have the required resources to attract and retain the necessary qualified staff, which eventually renders them inefficient. They are also not financially sustainable, partly because a lot of donors do not provide enough core support, but rather, prefer annual funding to medium-to-long term ones that consider three to ten year commitments. As a result of this challenge to secure long term funding, women’s organisations tend to spend a lot of their time, energy, and resources looking for financial resources rather than focusing on their key objectives, which ultimately makes them ineffective.
Additionally, a lot of women’s organisations tend to work alone, using strategies that they deem fit, with very little opportunity to learn from one another’s best practices, to develop the clout to influence government, or the scale to achieve national impact. This means that however generous the donors, or hardworking the staff, there is no assurance that these underfunded, non-collaborative, and unaccountable approaches of these countless women’s organisations will actually lead to workable solutions for large-scale social problems:
“The contributions of conventional traditional donors and the good work of effective women’s organisations may temporarily improve matters at a particular place and time but they are unlikely to create the lasting reforms that the African society so urgently requires. (modified from Kramer’s article)
Catalytic Philanthropy is therefore proffered as the new approach to philanthropy, already being practiced by some donors with great benefits and impact. These exceptional donors are acting differently, using these four approaches:
1. Taking responsibility for achieving results
Catalytic philanthropists have the ambition to change the world, and the courage to accept responsibility for achieving those results. This emphasizes the fact that funders have a more influential role to play than merely supporting these organisations. Foundations and corporations have the clout, connections and capacity to make things happen in a way that most non-profits do not, and by getting directly involved and taking personal responsibility for theory results, they can leverage their personal and professional relations, initiate public-private partnerships, import projects that have proved successful elsewhere, create new models, influence government(s), draw public attention to an issue, coordinate the activities of different non-profits, and attract fellow funders from around the world. All these powerful platforms are dissolved when donors confine themselves to writing cheques.
2. Mobilising campaign for change
Catalytic philanthropy stimulates cross sector collaborations, consequently mobilising stakeholders to create shared solutions. Funders should therefore seek and engage others in compelling campaigns, empowerment of stakeholders, and creation of collaborative and innovative tools. This is because systematic reforms require relentless and unending campaigns which galvanize the attention of the many stakeholders involved, and unify their efforts around the pursuit of common goals.
3. Using all available tools
Catalytic philanthropists use all tools available for the creation of change, including unconventional ones, and ones external to the non-profit sector such as corporate resources, investment capital, advocacy, litigation and even lobbying.
4. Creating actionable knowledge
Catalytic philanthropists gather knowledge; they create actionable knowledge to improve their own effectiveness and to influence the behaviour of others. Actionable knowledge is one that can impact government spending, and is not limited to compiling and analyzing data. In this same vein, funders must not rely solely on grant applications and grantees for information about social problems they are tackling, but must look beyond, answer their own enquiries through research, and have a broad perspective of the issue(s) at hand rather than focusing narrowly on it in financial terms. The information must also carry emotional appeal to capture people’s attention, and practical recommendations to inspire them to action.
In conclusion, women’s organisations on the African continent need more catalytic philanthropists than traditional philanthropists. These catalytic philanthropists can be institutional funders, corporate institutions or individuals who exhibit the four attributes highlighted above, and can work with the women’s organisations to continuously build their capacities, commitments, communications, connections, networks, and to learn from each other so as to create the large-scale lasting solutions we all want to see. And we do need lasting solutions.
Gertrude Annoh-Quarshie
The Finance Manager
AWDF (African Women’s Development Fund)
Call for Proposals: Health and Reproductive Rights & Arts Sports and Culture Thematic Areas
Call for Proposals: Health and Reproductive Rights & Arts Sports and Culture Thematic Areas
It is the pleasure of African Women’s Development Fund to announce that they are now accepting proposals for grants concerning HIV/AIDS. Below is a link to the proposal document which applicants may download.
Please remember to fill in the Guidelines AS WELL AS the Financial Management Assessment Document, both downloadable from here:
CALL FOR PROPOSAL – HRR & ACS Thematic Areas
Financial Management Assessment Guidelines AWDF
Applicants can also send a request to AWDF at grants@africlub.net/awdf titled “HRR AND ACS Call for Proposals” to be emailed the guideline documents, if for any reason, they are unable to download it from the website.
Call for Proposals: HIV/AIDS Thematic Area
Call for Proposals: HIV/AIDS Thematic Area
It is the pleasure of African Women’s Development Fund to announce that they are now accepting proposals for grants concerning HIV/AIDS. Below is a link to the proposal document which applicants may download.
Please remember to fill in the Guidelines AS WELL AS the Financial Management Assessment Document, both downloadable from here:
CALL FOR PROPOSALS – HIV&AIDS Thematic Area
Financial Management Assessment Guidelines AWDF Grant Applications 2012
Applicants can also send a request to AWDF at grants@africlub.net/awdf titled “HIV/AIDS Grants” to be emailed the guideline documents, if for any reason, they are unable to download it from the website.
A RESOURCE PAPER: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
A RESOURCE PAPER: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
In recent months, AWDF has noticed with deep concern, a rise in the frequency of violence-related deaths and injuries, and domestic violence cases being reported by the various Ghanaian mediahouses. Not only does it seem that violence has increased, it also seems that it comes in a wider variety of instances, some increasingly brutal and others startlingly fatal.
In reaction to this, three of our staff put together this personal blog piece on a call to action against violence against women very recently. Barely two weeks after, the Ghanaian celebrity representative to the popular South Africa-based Big Brother Africa, a very visible and internationally broadcasted reality show, slapped a fellow female housemate in a shocking act of violence which had them both expelled from the show, and left the entire continent debating. Our Communications Officer, Nana Sekyiamah issued an emphatic disapproval of this action of violence by a male against a female, and this was captured on leading radio stations and by Big Brother’s website.
These events have prompted us on the need to always ensure the availability of educative and preventive materials for victims and potential victims as well as perpetrators, on Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women. Hence, this resource paper on what defines Domestic Violence and places to go to for safety, counselling, protection and violence-related support in several countries all over the continent of Africa.
Violence rates are rising everywhere, for a variety of reasons, and as Mr. Freeman Tettey, DOVVSU (Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit) Public Relations Officer said in an interview with The Times newspaper in Accra in March this year, there were 15, 495 reported cases of violence against women last year in Ghana, and 2,474 cases of woman-to-man violence cases in the same period. It is about time we increase public awareness and education of this negative situation in our societies.
For the Resource Paper on Violence Against Women (What to do, Where to go), please click the link below:
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About the African Women’s Development Fund
Over the past ten years, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) has blazed a trail for women’s rights and philanthropy across the African continent. AWDF is an African, not for profit, grantmaking organisation. Since the start of operations in 2001, AWDF has provided US$19 million in grants to 800 women’s organisations in 42 African countries.
AWDF’s grant making processes are uniquely designed to meet the needs of African women and activities include the provision of small and larger grants to African women’s organisations, capacity building support and a strong focus on advocacy and movement building.
… THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET BREATHES
… THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET BREATHES
It’s been raining heavily in Ghana since late noon yesterday, the weighed-down clouds drenching the eastern and finally arriving in the southern half of the country early this morning. Even now, the weather is still very overcast and there is a constant baby-shower of rain. It is as if Mama Earth is projecting an aggregate of the vibes coming from all over the world today – World Environmental Day, June 5.
It is as if she is saying, “I am here.” In the current state of the environment, the earth, and the climate in the preparations leading to Rio+20, it is as if she is letting us know that she is with us – watching, waiting and hoping. Yet what a half century of exploitation, commercialization, and inconsideration it has been! Should you hop onto a satellite high above earth, and compare the forest/plant cover, the shorelines, the desert areas, the waterbody-volumes all over the continent, of 50 years ago with those now, the depletion is over 60%.
Concerned? We are most alarmed about the current state of the environment of the continent. This is not simply due to the increasing agricultural and resource challenges slowly strangling us day by day, but also because in Africa, it is women who bear the brunt of most disasters, suffer most, and work hardest – and in the global scheme of things, it is Africa that is usually at the receiving end of most environmentally dangerous products and activities from the rest of the world. This equates to African women being the ultimate recipients of the consequences of these events, whichever angle we analyse it from. Do we know what women represent in the circle of life? If we do, then this should be a very frightening state of affairs for each and every one of us!
These reasons are mostly why in 2007, we took the decision to make the African Biodiversity Network one of our biggest grantees, investing major funds into their biodiversity-environmental-sustainable arch of activities from then till now. The ABN’s pioneering initiatives have done much and continue to preserve important, sustainable ecological knowledge and practice. Please take a look for yourselves what this wonderful institution is doing for Africa!: ABN Healing Africa. And when you’re done, find out about Mphatheleni Makaulele, one of ABN’s women partners from South Africa, and the amazing initiatives being run by her Mupo Foundation.
Words defy us, ABN and Mupo! Words defy us, all African stalwarts fighting against the influx of disastrous products, groups, activities, and institutions that have been gnawing away at Africa’s foundations and lifestyles and threatening to turn our continent, a haven of life, hope, ingenuity, and sustenance; the cradle of civilization and great personalities, into a barren land!
Women of Africa join ABN, Mupo Foundation, and other partners in their efforts to re-heal what we have wounded and scarred, pledging to work towards a more hopeful future for our continent. Plant a tree today, make a donation to our Grantees, and do something environmentally friendly today (and every day!).
Little seeds make mighty trees. Happy World Environment Day, Africa!
Golda Addo (AWDF Communications Associate)
CALL TO ACTION! – STOPPING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN GHANA
CALL TO ACTION! – STOPPING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN GHANA
For the past few months, our radios and air spaces have been blasting out and vibrating with hair-raising acts of violence against women and children. What concerns us is the obvious disparity between the levels of violence before, and the levels currently. The magnitude of violence in Ghana is now overwhelming, and calls for immediate action from as many quarters as possible. The likely question on people’s minds will be “What are the various female activists in town doing? This, for us, is a very relevant question that requires prioritized and immediate action as its answer.
Be it due to complacency or lack of commitment to issues, we are not yet certain, but we definitely have seen a decrease in awareness creation and public campaigns against Domestic Violence in the country. Our media houses focus more on political issues and front-page scandals, amongst others, since these are what generate the huge amounts of revenue they desire. National issues surrounding Gender, Women, Children, and Empowerment have become de-prioritised in these media, only receiving central treatment once in every long while, or when prominent institutions and iconic figures make mention of them, which is often a momentary occurrence rarely sustained by the media stations.
Time was, when the “big guns” of women empowerment, female issues, and gender initiatives in Ghana all played very active roles before and during the 16days of Activism Against Violence Against Women, an event celebrated from 25th November to 10th December every year. All of a sudden this has ceased, and this event is marked by a few fluttering banners in inconspicuous locations in a few capital points in the country, a few newspaper and journal adverts with little stimulation or excitement to action, and very restrained, unexciting discussions in poorly publicized media programmes and forums. I vividly remember when we had attention-grabbing posters of abused women and children with inscriptions on them at vantage traffic lights in the capital which educated both literate and illiterate on the unacceptability of violence and abuse. This was an effective method of sparking debates and discussions among passengers in cars, taxis and tro-tros and even on pedestrian-walks. Remember that violence is no respecter of persons, class, profession nor public standing, and anybody at all could fall victim to it at any point in time.
From several recent reports coming in from Ghanaian media houses, Domestic Violence has taken on a new and deadly trend where abusers have progressed from physical battery to fatal attacks on both spouses and children. These attacks are often shown, post-occurrence, to have had murderous intent, and at times bear inherent traits of lunacy or mental illness. If this does not call for immediate governmental, national, and societal intervention, nothing does. Below is a catalogue of some of the recent reports on violence from random points and mediums:
- Man kills wife, commits suicide, 15th May, 2012
- Father arrested for attempts incest with daughter, 16th May, 2012
- Rapist kills two siblings, wounds mother, 15th May, 2012
- Man kills his two kids, stabs pregnant wife, 3rd May, 2012
- Man slashes wife’s throat for ‘daring’ to divorce him, 10th May, 2012
- Pregnant woman dies from stab wounds, 4th May,2012
- Trader cuts ex-lovers scrotum, testicles out, 7th May, 2012
- Cop rapes married woman, 7th May, 2012
- Man throws improvised explosive devices at 4 children for disturbing his siesta.
- Woman, 22, stabbed to death by boyfriend, 20th April, 2012
- Fetish priest in court for murdering lover, 19th April, 2012
“A suspected sex maniac has allegedly shot and killed two siblings and wounded their mother after raping their elder sister in the bush at Dukoto Junction in the Amenfi East District in the Western Region…………………”
“Police in Kumasi have commenced investigations into the death of a 22 year lady said to have been stabbed by her boyfriend at Oduom. The incident reportedly happened soon after *Maame Frema’s family told her boyfriend with whom she has a child that they could not continue the relationship. The victim is said to have reported her boyfriend’s abusive behavior to the family………………….”
“*Nana Sika Manim, a 35-year old fetish priest, on Thursday appeared before the Kade District Magistrate’s Court charged with murdering his 19-year-old girl friend……”
“Emotions took the better part of a 34-year-old man when he allegedly slaughtered his wife on a farm last Saturday after the woman had threatened to divorce him, The woman, whose name was given as *Akua Boaminh, was the mother of five children, including a two-year-old she was nursing before her death. According to the police, when the deceased’s body was discovered in the bush, it lay supine, with the face covered with a scarf, while the hands were tied to a tree. The body, stained with blood, was almost covered with ants.”
*names changed to protect their identity
Reading and listening to these heart-breaking stories of violence impresses more deeply in us, the need for women and female-focused organisations in Ghana to be more proactive and set up strategies to deal with all forms of violence, before the fatal happens. AWDF is not left out in this struggle to create a violence-free Ghana and Africa and will continue to use its programme that supports the 16days of Activism Against Violence Against Women to support women’s organizations across the continent, to create awareness and literally “make noise “through various activities to commemorate the event. AWDF has supported this event from 2003 to date, and has provided financial supports to over 105 women’s groups from 25 African Countries to the tune of over $USD 97,000. From our 2011 analysis of applications received from across the continent towards the 16days of activism we realised that just a few of the applications came from Ghana; the period was silent and most women’s groups were not heard or seen undertaking any serious or extensive public awareness campaigns and activities on violence against women, which is very uncharacteristic of the Ghanaian Civil Society community.
The current worsening trends, as seen, heard and read in the media is a clarion call for all women’s rights organisations to take awareness creation and education extremely seriously, because, who knows whom the next victim will be? No, don’t look over your shoulder.
Hilda de-Souza
Rose Buabeng
Gifty Anim
(Grants Department – AWDF)
Grantee Highlight: Better HAG Uganda – Working With Champions
Grantee Highlight: Better HAG Uganda – Working With Champions
Written in bold, large fonts at the top of their webpage is the declaration: “We Strive to be Champions of Better Health”, and that is exactly what Better Health Action Group Uganda is turning out to be. Better HAG is a non-profit initiative with focus on Reproductive and Sexual Health, and in September 2011, they were given an AWDF (African Women’s Development Fund) grant of USD $1000 in support of their big, hairy, audacious goal: “… seeking a world of better health with no cases of preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths, where people can access sexual and reproductive health (including HIV and AIDS) services as well as exercise their health rights, and where vulnerability to children in all angles is greatly reduced.”
They are not only bold about their goals and vision, they are physical about it too; having recently made Sports and Events – S & E’s as they call it – one of their means of reaching out to and empowering women, girls, and the people in the community. They saw in football and netball, an invaluable opportunity and ability to bring together people of all makes and ages for a period of fun, interaction, togetherness, and all sorts of possibilities. These sports not only mobilise a lot of people in the community for interaction and information, but also bring them together for education and capacity building. This occurs through their engagement in the planning and delivery of the sports events, and their actual participation in them.
It is through these mediums that Better HAG empowers the participants – girls, youth, and women – in capacity and skills, whiles the sports commentator of the event provides the educational points for reform or advocacy. This is done during the sport activities, where the commentator would educate the crowd and players on the details of a particular issue of concern, say HIV/AIDS prevention, gender equality, child protection, etc. The people are not only educated on these, but also on the best values of the sport that they are engaging in, such as team-work, cooperation, respect for team-mates and other players, and these lessons linked to life values such as leadership, discipline, and conflict resolution. By doing all these, Better HAG helps in grooming happier, healthier, more responsible and protected girls, women, and society … bringing themselves several steps closer to their fierce, audacious goals!
Started in October 2008, in Uganda, by human health rights and development activists, Better HAG is focused on “an advocacy for accelerated realization of women and girls’ health rights”. Not only have they worked hard to sustain this, but they have also given it a new and wider lease of life, by using sports as yet another platform for reaching and empowering the people on life-changing issues.
Here at AWDF, we are very proud of our grantee, Better HAG Uganda. Our belief in excellence and the capacities of females to reach great heights is highlighted in their achievements. We hold the deep belief that if women and women’s organizations are empowered with skills, information, sustainable livelihoods, opportunities to fulfill their potential, plus the capacity and space to make transformatory choices, then we will have vibrant, healthy, and inclusive communities. Without a doubt, a hard-working entity like Better HAG fits just right into what we here at AWDF, hold in value when thinking of grants, support, and progress on issues of Reproductive and Sexual Health for women in Africa.
AWDF says “Kudos” to Better HAG!
STATEMENT ON SAME SEX MARRIAGE IN GHANA Bernice Sam – National Coordinator, Women in Law and Development (WiLDAF), Ghana
STATEMENT ON SAME SEX MARRIAGE IN GHANA Bernice Sam – National Coordinator, Women in Law and Development (WiLDAF), Ghana
[tp lang=”fr” not_in=”en”]The impression created by an interview granted to a journalist following a recently convened forum in Accra, Ghana on Constitution Review and Gender Equality is that I and the organisation for which I work, WiLDAF Ghana are advocating criminalisation of same sex marriages in Ghana. This is not the case. I wish to state categorically and unequivocally the following:
a. That neither I, nor my organisation WiLDAF Ghana, have ever and nor will we ever advocate for the criminalisation of the rights of LGBTI communities in Ghana.
b. I and my organisation WiLDAF Ghana do not support discrimination in any form against lesbians or gays.
c. That as a women’s rights activist, I support and have been working for the human rights of all women irrespective of ethnicity, religion. age, race, disability, sexual orientation and so on. The principle which both I and WiLDAF, Ghana work to advance and uphold is that all women are entitled to the full enjoyment of human rights provisions and protections by the State in Ghana and by all other duty bearers. It is this principle that both I and WiLDAF, Ghana have been working to over the past 20 years, through law advocacy. I am confident that the record that both WiLDAF, Ghana and I have established over the years will attest to this fact.
d. The remarks attributed to me by this journalist in an interview after the forum have been made totally out of context. They were mined from a discussion in which I gave an assessment of the various scenarios in Africa in which marriage was being assessed in similar constitutional review processes[1]. Some such as the South African context, I explained to the journalist, have been redefined to accept same sex marriage whereas others have not. Asked if I was for or against same sex marriage, I responded that as a women’s rights activist, I support the rights of all women. I thought that was the end of the matter.
I recognise that this entire episode has been the source of much dismay and anguish for many of our friends, colleagues and partners both in Ghana and elsewhere. I wish to apologise sincerely to you all for this. I take my responsibilities to the constituency of Ghanaian women very seriously and would not, either willingly or otherwise seek to cause such distress – especially to fellow women who have been as marginalised as those from LGBTI communities.
I hereby reaffirm my commitment, and the commitment of WiLDAF, Ghana to ensure that all women in Ghana can enjoy their full rights.
Bernice Sam
Distribution List
AWID
Aim for Human Rights
African Women’s Development Fund
AIDS FREE WORLD
WiLDAF Ghana
Canadian Crossroads International
Centre for Democratic Development
Citi FM
IWRAW A-P
[1] It should be noted that the center point of my presentation was on matters related to marriage and polygamy and the rights of women within that context. I made reference to same sex marriage but this was not picked up in the main conference. The journalist approached me after the meeting had concluded.[/tp]
[tp lang=”fr” not_in=”en”]L’impression créée par une interview accordée à un journaliste qui suit un forum récemment organisé à Accra, au Ghana sur la révision de la Constitution et de l’égalité des sexes est que moi et l’organisation pour laquelle je travaille, WiLDAF Ghana préconisons la criminalisation des mariages de même sexe au Ghana. Ce n’est pas le cas. Je tiens à affirmer catégoriquement et sans équivoque de ce qui suit:
a. Que ni moi, ni mon organisation WiLDAF Ghana, n’ont jamais et ne plaiderons jamais en faveur de la criminalisation des droits des communautés LGBTI au Ghana.
b. Moi et mon organisation WiLDAF Ghana ne soutiens aucune forme de discrimination contre les lesbiennes ou gays.
c. Comme militante des droits des femmes, je soutiens et je travaille pour les droits humains de toutes les femmes, indépendamment de l’origine ethnique, la religion. âge, la race, le handicap, l’orientation sexuelle et ainsi de suite. Le travail du Ghana à l’avance et soutiens est que toutes les femmes ont droit à la pleine jouissance des dispositions de leurs droits humains et la protection de l’État du Ghana et par tous les autres détenteurs d’obligations. Il est ce principe que moi et WiLDAF, travaillons au cours des 20 dernières années, grâce à la loi de plaidoyer. Je suis convaincue que le dossier que WiLDAF, le Ghana et moi-même avons établi au fil des ans atteste de ce fait.
d. Les remarques qui me sont attribuées par ce journaliste dans une interview après le forum ont été faites totalement hors contexte. Ils ont été extraits d’une discussion dans laquelle je donnais une évaluation des divers scénarios en Afrique où le mariage a été évaluée dans des processus similaires de contrôle de constitutionnalité [1]. Certains, comme le contexte sud-africain, je l’ai expliqué à la journaliste, ont été redéfinis à accepter le mariage de même sexe alors que d’autres ne l’ont pas. Prié de dire si je suis pour ou contre le mariage de même sexe, je répondis que militante des droits des femmes, je soutiens les droits de toutes les femmes. Je pensais que ce fut la fin de la question.
Je reconnais que tout cette épisode a été la source de beaucoup de consternation et d’angoisse pour beaucoup de nos amis, collègues et partenaires, tant au Ghana et ailleurs. Je tiens à présenter nos sincères excuses à vous tous pour cela. Je prends mes responsabilités à la circonscription des femmes ghanéennes très au sérieux et ne voudrais pas, que ce soit volontairement ou non chercher à provoquer une telle détresse – en particulier à d’autres femmes qui ont été marginalisés comme ceux des communautés LGBTI.
Je réaffirme par la présente mon engagement, et l’engagement de WiLDAF, le Ghana pour assurer que toutes les femmes au Ghana peuvent jouir de leurs droits.
Bernice Sam
Liste de distribution
AWID
Aim for Human Rights
Fonds de développement des femmes africaines
SIDA monde libre
WiLDAF Ghana
Carrefour canadien international
Centre pour le développement démocratique
Citi FM
IWRAW A-P
[1] Il convient de noter que le point de ma présentation était centre sur les questions relatives au mariage et la polygamie et les droits des femmes dans ce contexte. Je fis référence à mariage de même sexe, mais cela n’a pas été pris à la conférence principale. Le journaliste m’a approché après la réunion avait conclu.[/tp]